Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-29
A METEMPSYOHOLOGIOAL PERIL.

OF u MINI Win ~ itscpit
Eye in His Head.
1t is probable that no greater stroke
of fortune could have befalen Mr.
Charles A. Williams. of Minneapolis,
than the recent failure of Il surgeon in
this city to insert rabbits eye in his
head and make it grow there. Mr.
| Williams lost one of his own eyes when
he was only - years old, and having
prejudice aga nst glass eyes on account
of their unhappy habit of trying tt
look around corners and of gaz ING
heavenward when the natural eye IL
bent upon the ground, his soul was
filled with hope when he learned that
New York ophthalmist was satisfied
that he could transplant rabbits eye
take root and grow. He came to th
city, and a large rabbit with lustrous
hazel ewes was selected for the victim
| Mr.. Will ans was informed that there
was no hope of his being able to see
with the rabbits eye. but that it would
have more natural appearance thar
glass eve, anG would conduct itself
| harmony With his other organ O.
vision. 1t is only fair 10 presume. how.
ever, that this was merely little sub
terfuge on the part of the surgeon tc
induce his patient to submit to the
operation, for if the optic nerve had
taken root and grown, and the eye had
lived and flourished, there is every rea.
son 10 believe that it would have con.
tinued to see as well from under Mr..
Williams eyelashes rs from the rab.
bits.
Still it would have been only rab
bits eye after all, and whatever it was
would have been seen from a rabbits
standpoint. Mr.. Williams must grad.
ually have acquired the habits anG
mode of thought of a rabbit, at leas,
on that side of his body most affected
BY the new eye, and tbs unnatural
blending OF human nature with rabbit
nature would have been far more in
|
4 bits eyes, and had thus been wholly
metempsychosed. If, for instance.
with this rabbit eye controlling him on
one side and the man nature on the
other, he had gone hunting ard en-.
countcrcd fox, the man part of him
would have been for shooting the fox,
and the rabbit instinct would have i'm.
PEELED him to quit the neighborhood rs
rapidly and unostentatiously as posi-
ble He would thus have been torn
with conflicting emotions. and few
such experiences must have undermined
his health and broken him down phvsi.
cally and mentally.
How would he have conducted him.
self when walking through his OWE
garden' Would the tender green let.
tuce and the beautiful red-veined beet.
tops most have delighted the eye of the
man side or tickled the dainty palate
of the rabbit side? But these thin os
would have been trivial compared with
MS inevitable feelings had hunger
driven him TO seek q restaurant. and
had he there found dead and dressed
rabbit hanging by the heels in the
window. The man side would have
urged him to 60 in and eat. and the
rabbit side would have torn him away
with loathing and disgust Such trials
must IN time worn out his manly will
force. and left the rabbit side in the
ascendant, in which case he would have
been liable at any moment TO make in
cursions upon the Minneapolis lawns
hopping about on all-fours over tn,
rich green grass. taking here nibblt
and there nibble, till at length hi,
very appearance might have changed
with his instincts, his ears elongated
ana stood upright. and the unhapp,
man have fallen victim at last to som,
street dog. This great peril Mr.. vii
hams has escaped by the failure of tn,
RABBIT $ eye.-Neao York Times.
Inc iaet OF the matter is he who puts tn
N hat-